Oil Industry Report Warns of Massive Job Losses From Biden’s Anti-Drilling Agenda

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The Biden administration’s failure to pursue a plan for offshore oil and gas leasing will have long-term impacts on American jobs, gross domestic product (GDP) and energy security, an industry report found.

American oil production would decline by roughly 500,000 barrels per day and at least 57,000 energy industry jobs would be lost if the administration declined to issue a five-year leasing plan by July, according to a report published Tuesday by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). U.S. GDP would decline $5 billion per year under the projection, the study further showed.

“If this delay persists, the impacts will likely continue to grow, reducing longterm oil and natural gas development and production in the region and the economic activity and government revenues that activity supports,” the report stated.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) is required, under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, to formulate and publish five-year plans detailing prospective offshore oil and gas lease sales. Without a plan in place, the federal government would be unable to hold any offshore lease sales.

But the Biden administration hasn’t moved forward on a new plan even as the current one is set to expire in June, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report. (Read more from “Oil Industry Report Warns of Massive Job Losses From Biden’s Anti-Drilling Agenda” HERE)

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1.1 Million More Illegal Aliens in US Since Biden Took Office

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The population of illegal immigrants in the United States has jumped by 1.1 million in President Joe Biden’s first year, says a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

CIS said in an announcement distributed to the press that the data from the Department of Homeland Security is from 2018, so it used the federal government’s “household survey” to get more current information about the number of illegal aliens inside the country.

Data from the survey showed the illegal alien population was 11.4 million in January of 2022. The center’s preliminary population estimate for February 2022 is 11.5 million.

“The number of illegal immigrants grew dramatically this past year as the result of Biden administration policies which released most of the people encountered at the border and stopped most interior enforcement,” Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research and the report’s lead author, said. (Read more from “1.1 Million More Illegal Aliens in US Since Biden Took Office” HERE)

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More Marines Deploy to Eastern Europe

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Three Marine Corps aviation units have joined more than 10,000 U.S. troops mobilized to Eastern Europe and Germany in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.

The Marines already had been on the continent as part of NATO’s Cold Response exercise in Norway, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told Military Times. Now, 200 members of Marine Air Control Unit 28, based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, are in Lithuania.

At the same time, 10 F/A-18 Hornets and some C-130 Hercules transport planes from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, will head to an as-yet-undetermined location, Kirby added, with another 200 personnel.

That brings the number of U.S. troops deployed in response to the war in Ukraine to more than 12,000. To date, the vast majority of troops have been Army and Air Force personnel, though the Navy threw its hat in the ring by sending six EA-18G Growlers to Germany, Kirby announced Monday.

Since the beginning of February, U.S. troops have been building up a presence along NATO’s eastern front and in Germany. The Pentagon started with a commitment of U.S. 7,000 troops mobilizing to individual countries, then later committed another 7,000 as part of the NATO Response Force, though not every one of that group has been mobilized. (Read more from “More Marines Deploy to Eastern Europe” HERE)

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Ukraine Peace Talks End With Possible Crimea Concessions

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Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ended Tuesday in Turkey with some optimism that both sides may be one step closer to ending the war.

Russia pledged to “reduce military activity” significantly near Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, as well as in Chernihiv to the north. Moscow also said it was ready to set up a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once a draft peace agreement is in place.

Ukrainian officials outlined potential concessions over territory occupied by Russia, including a proposal that negotiations over Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, be conducted over a 15-year period. Ukraine also said it would refrain from trying to retake the peninsula by force.

Zelensky said his country is prepared to declare its neutrality, as Russia demanded, and is also open to compromise over the fate of the contested Donbas region in the eastern part of Ukraine. (Read more from “Ukraine Peace Talks End With Possible Crimea Concessions” HERE)

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FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Booster Shots for Adults 50 and Up

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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday signed off on a second booster shot for older Americans and people who are immunocompromised.

The second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna booster shots was authorized by the federal agency for people ages 50 and up and those with severely weakened immune systems at least four months following their first booster.

The FDA had previously only cleared the fourth doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for people ages 12 and older who were immunocompromised. That group can now get a fifth shot — three doses and two boosters — with Tuesday’s FDA authorization.

“Current evidence suggests some waning of protection over time against serious outcomes from COVID-19 in older and immunocompromised individuals,” the FDA’s vaccine chief, Dr. Peter Marks, said in a statement.

Data shows an initial booster dose is critical to protect all adults from “potentially severe outcomes” of COVID-19, Marks said. (Read more from “FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Booster Shots for Adults 50 and Up” HERE)

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Ron Desantis Leads 21-State Lawsuit Against Feds to End Mask Mandates for Travel

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced a lawsuit by 21 states seeking to end federal masking mandates for air travel and public transportation.

“It is well past time to get rid of this unnecessary mandate and get back to normal life,” DeSantis said at a press conference announcing the legal action against the Biden administration.

“It’s amazing that this has gone on as long as it has,” the governor said.

The Transportation Security Administration said earlier this month that the mandate would be extended to April 18. . .

DeSantis blasted that decision, asserting that the masking requirements were applied arbitrarily and no longer rooted in science. (Read more from “Ron Desantis Leads 21-State Lawsuit Against Feds to End Mask Mandates for Travel” HERE)

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Biden Administration Will ‘Monitor’ Florida’s New Parental Rights Bill (VIDEO)

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White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield made a rare appearance at the daily press briefing Tuesday afternoon and told reporters the Department of Education will monitor the implementation of Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education bill.

“The Department of Education…will monitor this law upon implementation to evaluate whether it violates federal civil rights law,” Bedingfield said.

The Parental Rights in Education bill bars the instruction of sexual education or orientation to children younger than eight years old and is supported by the majority of Americans, including Democrats. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law this week and blasted critics for misrepresenting its purpose.

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Funny Business? Biden Got a Mass Amount of Excess Votes in Key Swing States

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. . .[A] new study from John R. Lott reportedly shows how Biden received 255,000 excess ballots in key swing states. He doesn’t want this study used to challenge the 2020 results, though that’s exactly what’s going to happen. He merely wanted to show how easy it is to count invalid ballots. It’s a peer-reviewed study (via Washington Times):

Looking at six swing states, the data he crunched found that voter turnout in Republican areas increased from 2016 to 2020 while voter turnout among Democrats dropped — except in places where voter fraud was claimed.

That accounted for 255,000 “excess” votes for Mr. Biden above what would be expected, Mr. Lott said. His paper has been accepted for publication in Public Choice, a peer-reviewed journal specializing in the intersection of economics and political science.

“More heavily Democratic counties actually had a slightly lower turnout in 2020, except for counties where vote fraud was alleged. In those counties, you had a huge increase in turnout,” Mr. Lott told The Washington Times in an interview explaining his findings.

“In some of those swing states, you had counties where vote fraud was alleged. In some of those swing states, you had counties where vote fraud wasn’t alleged. And yet you only had huge increases in turnout where vote fraud was alleged,” he said.

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Graphic ‘Gender Queer’ Sex Books Marketed to Kids

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“Gender queer” books are now being targeted towards children – and are being found on school bookshelves – with U.S. school district committees allowing the comics to remain in school libraries.

“Gender queer” is defined as “of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity cannot be categorized as solely male or female,” according to Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Despite the mature concepts it contains, the book “Gender Queer” by 32-year-old California-based author Maia Kobabe, who “uses e/em/eir pronouns,” has been distributed on the shelves of Ohio’s Hudson High School library.

The book tells the story of a child through adolescence to adulthood struggling with gender conformity and includes a handful of graphic illustrations of LGBT sexual experiences and has long caused controversy with parents in other school districts, such as Fairfax County Public Schools in 2021.

Cartoons depict situations such as “coming out,” discovering “autoandrophilia” (defined as a female sexually aroused by the thought of having male genitalia), and bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction. (Read more from “Graphic ‘Gender Queer’ Sex Books Marketed to Kids” HERE)

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Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs to Hunter Biden (VIDEO)

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Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden’s laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as “disinformation” to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released bombshell receipts showing Hunter received payments from foreign oligarchs that further reveal “the extent to which President Biden might be — and almost certainly is — compromised.”

According to the documents obtained by the senators, energy company CEFC, “an arm of the Chinese Government,” paid Wells Fargo Clearing Services $100,000 and designated “further credit to Owasco,” Hunter’s firm.

“There’s no middle man in this transaction. This is $100,000 from what is effectively an arm of the communist Chinese government direct to Hunter Biden,” Grassley said on the Senate floor on Monday. “To the liberal media and my Democratic colleagues: Is this official bank document Russian disinformation?”

“Bank records like this piece of evidence are pretty hard to deny and sweep under the rug. Our reports were chocked full of irrefutable evidence like this. And yet, the media buried those details, in an attempt to keep it hidden from the American people,” Johnson added in his testimony. (Read more from “Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs to Hunter Biden (VIDEO)” HERE)

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